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Architects: Grupo Arquidecture
- Area: 22600 m²
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:David Cervera, Alessandra Ortíz, Rocío Rojo, Héctor Velasco
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Manufacturers: GRAPHISOFT, Trespa, USG, Bostik, Durock, Mattera, Mayabtún, Metecno, NOVIDESA, Neogard, Otis, Predecon
Text description provided by the architects. The Gran Museo del Mundo Maya is a building with a contemporary expression about what the Mayans worshiped rather than the Mayans built, in this search we found a recurrent symbol, a key element in the cosmic vision of Mayan Culture: Ceiba, the sacred tree, whose roots penetrates and conforms the underworld, the trunk’s level lays down where life and daily activities take place underneath the shade of its frond which spreads its branches up to the sky and human transcendence.
